Human, All Too Human - 9780415914994

Human, All Too HumanAuthor(s): Diana Fuss\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415914994, 978-0415914994\nSynopsis\nThe question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking.\nHuman, All Too Human\nconsiders how we might radicalize our notion of the human. Can the human be thought outside humanism?\nAny rethinking of the human places us immediately inside an ever-widening field of contrasting labels: animate and inanimate, natural and artificial, living and dead, organic and mechanistic. These and other boundary confusions at the frontier of the human are the subject of this volume, as each essay takes up one of three disputed border identities: animals, things or children.\nHuman, All Too Human\nexamines how we explain our interest in anthropos